Salary Matters

Salary rates for teachers in the NSW public education system are determined as part of Award negotiations. In recent years the Federation has been successful achieving significant increases in starting rates of pay for teachers. The union has long maintained a view that a competitive salary structure is a necessary measure to encourage more graduates to take up a career in teaching.

STARTING RATES

Applicants to the NSW public education system will have their qualifications assessed by the employer. This process will determine the subjects that the teacher is academically qualified to teach, and the salary level on which the teacher will commence employment. Most graduates currently entering the teaching profession will have completed qualifications that will lead to classification by the employer as 4-year trained (4YT). The table below illustrates the movement in 4 year-trained teacher salary starting rates from 1989 - 2008.

INCREMENTAL PROGRESSION

Subject to satisfactory performance, permanent full-time and permanent part-time classroom teachers in the public education system progress along a salary scale in annual increments. Temporary teachers are paid a pro rata amount of the relevant permanent teacher salary rate. Casual teachers are paid on a different salary scale that is created by compressing the permanent rates into a shorter time-scale and then adding a loading to compensate for conditions not available to day-to-day casual teachers that would normally apply to temporary and permanent employees.

updated 26/3/07

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